My most recent passion.My reptiles. I don't have the ability to post pictures of every single reptile I own, but I'll post pics of most of them.I own geckos and one redfoot tortoise ( I LOVE my redfoot tortoise, he's hands down my most favorite reptile).

This is Stagger Lee, my redfoot tortoise. He's just a baby and he's only 2 1/2" long right now.And he's the cutest thing EVER. And he eats poo sometimes. Not just any poo. His own poo. They do it in the wild when they're babies. It's how they get a lot of their vitamin D3.ALL of my animals have some type of music-related name. Stagger Lee is a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I didn't choose his name because the song reminds me of him or anything. I chose it because I was trying to figure out a name for him, and I was preparing his enclosure before I got him, and the song popped into my head.

He likes food. LOTS of food, but only if I hand feed him. He's unbelievably spoiled.

He tries to eat a little bit of everything. I think he's a tortoise goat, honestly.

This is Crackity Jones, one of my crested geckos. He was my first crested gecko, and I love him a lot even if his head lacks nice crests.

This is Eli Chimbley, and he's evil. Well, I don't know that he's EEEEVVVVIIIILLL, but he's at that size/age where they get crazy for a little bit. I hope he grows out of it. Crazy gecko.

And here's Svetlana. My ONLY gecko to get an undeniably female name, and I'm thinking she is a "he", but I won't know for sure until s/he gets a few grams bigger.S/he's my pride and join rhacodactylus gecko.

And onto my leopard geckos.Oh boy. I have a LOT of those.Some of my hatchlings. We got 12 hatchlings. I incubated at 84 degrees to give me a good mixture of males and females...yeah. I got 11 males and 1 female. Go figure.This little one is sold and will be shipping out tomorrow to his new home:

hahahaha, at first I joked and said I was because our 12 hatchlings were "oops" because SOMEBODY (my husband) was going to try to breed his geckos YEARS ago, so he put his male in with his females.Nobody laid any eggs EVER, though, so we figured that they were in their...lizard menopause.Well, their heat emitter went out in March, and I'm not sure how long it was out, but I noticed it when they stopped eating so well for us.

Once my temp gun arrived, I went downstairs and checked their temps, they were at 74 degrees!!!That's WAY too cold!So, I panicked and went out and bought a new heat emitter, and within an hour their temps were in the lower 90's where they should be.

And they started eating like PIGS. But...going from that cold to heat caused my females to cycle.So...unknowingly, I had caused all three of my females to ovulate, and the male started rattling his tail.STUPID ME still didn't think anything of it as they will sometimes rattle their tails when they eat.But oh no no no.He got to EVERY female in there, and all three became gravid.

And geckos retain sperm for up to a year.Sooooo!we got 13 fertile eggs (one molded over and died after incubating for about a month), and 12 healthy hatchlings.We had to learn REAL FAST how to care for gravid leos and their fertile eggs!

But everything went well and I learned a lot FAST.

And my husband built a rack, so that in case we didn't sell them, we would be able to keep them.

Well, I have three left for sale out of 12. I've sold 7 and held back 2.I would have sold them faster had there been more than one female in the bunch.You CANNOT put two male geckos together or they'll KILL each other.

At first I cringed because they're all normals.But then it was brought to my attention by another breeder that they are normals het for nothing.Being het for NOTHING is such a rarity in the leopard gecko world now-a-days.Such in fact, that I'm breeding them again next year, and I've already got a waiting list.

Pablo Honey has developed quite the 'tude.He's a biter when you try to get him out of his enclosure, but then once he's out, he's usually a good boy.I still love him lots.He has such personality.And he does "The Stalker Walk" up and down my arms.Silly teh gecko.

Meddle, Ummaguma, and Hunky Dory are all about 10 months old (SLOOOOOWWWW growers).Crackity Jones is 10 months old, just about.Svetlana is...over a year old (SLOOOOOWWWW grower)Re-loo is...about 3 months old now.

All my hatchlings are 3 and 4 months old.

Joplin is...just over a year old.Cotten is 1 year and 2 months old.Jethro is about the same age as Cotten.

And Lizzie, Ursula, Bear, and Monkey are all over 8 years old.

oooh, and Stagger Lee is just about 9 months old.His breeder told me I could feed him a bit more than what is listed on his website as a basic diet.But I already do...he's just a smaller redfoot because his mom is a Brazilian (Cherry head), and they're a few inches smaller than northerns or Colombians.